Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.